Alcoa lost out in the mid-2000s when Boeing switched from aluminum wings and aluminum fuselages—the skin covering the tube-shaped body of the plane—to more lightweight carbon-fiber composites for its twin-aisle 787s.

Royce retrieved the wheeled suitcase, then the black guy stepped back inside the elevator, Maven seeing, reflected in the wall mirror before the door closed, him screwing a tube-shaped suppressor onto his pistol muzzle.